>Perhaps one day we'll even be able to use robot soldiers to fight our wars instead of shepherding the poor and the minority into our military
You should watch "Gundam Wing" airing on the cartoon network (11:30pm-12am central). It is a great show, and the antagonist uses unmanned "mobile dolls" to fight a war. It gives an interesting perspective as to why its a bad idea to fight wars with unmanned machines.
that is only one of the things (and the most commonly used) that i like about jfs (i know rieserfs with lvm can do the smae thing, thats what i use on my suse box) but the jfs is a lot cleaner.
I read the if 2600 was forced to take down its links it would resort to other things like lists or other methods of "linking" that cant be lumped together with hyperlinks. My question then, is when can we expect an injunction against lists?
Nah, IBM has plenty of office space, come down to austin, TX, the site was once a closed campus, but now the rent office space out, and not just office space, some company is renting the factory floor where the RS/6k's used to be manufactured in austin, of course all the good space is in the 900 bldgs:) although i personally thing 003 and 045 would make pretty decent doom / quake maps for some good deathmatch.
IBM hasnt forgotten about AFS and DEC/DFS, at least internally, we use it at work pretty extensivly (at least I do, i'm in AIX product test), and your DCE login id is key to almost every other id you get at ibm.
I'm on cable in austin too *makes a longhorn symbol and points himself northwest in his apt on riverside* and have had no probs with a linux box on thier network. I've even called thier support and and they are aware i'm running linux. I also believe the authentication is based on an ID from the modem, as i have 2 ip's (so 2 roomates can play on the same halflife or starcraft server at the same time) and the modem was only able to let one of the ip's be active at any time, so when i called the tech, after confirming that it was the modem the tech banged away at his machine for 2 minutes or so and then i could get 2 ip's. Also, plain vanilla dhcpcd works on rr's network, you dont need rrdhcpcd. RR has been great about service too, everynow and then during peak usage times the network gets laggy, but if you let one of the techs know about it, they generally work out the problem.
I got a certified letter from RoadRunner (broadband on TimeWarners cable network) complaining that i had port 25 open, but they didnt ask me to take down my mail server, just to make it more secure. They just wanted to let me know i had failed a mail relay test and my box my be possible abused. I guess some cable companies are just better.
> The new chip represents Via's first attempt to challenge Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, and Advanced Micro at the high end of the computer chip business.
has the pc trade press looked at all the chip makers out there? Since when are x86 xhips high end chips? I would think Compaq's Alpha and IBM's POWER3 (and 4) would far outclass these 'high end' chips.
Yea, i know i'm really paying more than that (tuition is only about half of the money i pay to go to school, fee's are horrendous). We also get "free" fare on the entire austin bus system (but pay for that in fee's).
Through some lucrative "Get windows used by everone" campaign, Microsoft offers a good deal of its products to University of Texas students for $5 a cd
Win2k Pro/win 98 - $5
Visual Studio Pro - $25
Office 2k premium - $20
those arent the only ones for sale, just the ones i have purchased. It does feel good seeing MS Office premium locked in a plastic box at best buy with a $799 pricetag on it, knowing you only paid $20
compiling the kernel takes no time at all.
I did
#make -j bzImage; make -j modules
and it took my computer roughly 2 and a half minutes to compile the kernel and modules. My machine was almost completely unresponsive during that period, but one of my w commands did run and my load avg was at 92
This was on my Athlon 700 (supported by the AMD Irongate chipset)
First of all, let me say i'm impressed that your post wasnt as an AC.
My machine dual boots Windows and Linux (SuSE), and i do admit that i can get more work that i need to get done for school under windows, it is a better desktop environment in my opinion (although that is a little biased since starting a KDE or Gnome session on under X-Win 32 gives me the advantage of having a windows and a Linux desktop under windows, which is a better solution than VMWare (running the windows desktop from Linux) for me.
While i say windows is a better desktop for me, i also recognize the superiority of Linux for servers. You wont catch me loading Win NT / 2K on my servers.
> Given a choice between running Linux, and needing more diskspace for Windows apps, Linux will be deleted.
Actually, i went out and bought a 7200 RPM 40 Gig HD to supplement my 13 Gig HD.
The whole part about the majority of the cost of a CD being recovering marketing costs and putting out videos and getting radio airplay is a bunch of crap spewed by the RIAA. If that were true, my Slipknot CD would cost a lot less than the current Britney Spears CD. The only place I have seen a Slipknot video is channel 15 in Austin TX, which is a like an indie version of MTV (and plays much better content, esp considering its a challeng to even tune to MTV and actually watch a video. Too much pointless programming), not to mention an artist like Britney Spears has a lot more money spent on radio airplay and getting her face on my Taco Bell Cup, then i ask the RIAA, why do those two CD's cost the same???
This guy generally has good things to say, and gives a well thought out talk. He has come down to the Austin site (IBM, where i work) and given some talks on IBM's Linux strategy to those of us involved in AIX and others in the ESG. While many may critisize IBM for different reasons, they really have been putting real effort into linux.
(my comments are in no way representative to those of IBM's)
If thier language reference's document portability is any indication of the portability of c# itself, i wouldn't be to hopeful. I cant look at the pdf's myself because i'm on AIX and the downloads from microsoft are all.exe files.
you make 4 T1's sound like its a lot of bandwidth. A T3 is equivelent to 28 T1's for 44.78 Mbps, and although i dont know if its the case for this transmission, but Qwest boasts OC-192 fiber links. OC-3 is 155 Mb, you do the math.
Yea, slow boot is not something to base a comparison on, try booting an S80 sometime, they can take 3 hours to boot at work at times, esp when they have a ton of SCSI disks to start up and check. During stress testing a load average of 3 isnt uncommon, i've seen a load average of 67 on an RS/6k before, and my telnet session had no noticable performance difference than when the load average was 0.
The computer equipment will most likely be fine. The govt houses all thier big machines behind expensive shielding against stuff like TEMPEST, so i'm sure thier stuff isnt going to be hurt by a little fire.
Who needs a standalon DVD player for this? I have a creative labs 6x DVD, and the install program will let me change the regions 7 times before it locks me out of that, but after that, its prob just a registry edit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DVD_Region might be a good place to start looking... And why limit watching DVD's on my 19" monitor and speakers when i have 60 ft cables delivering S-Video and Dolby Digital AC-3 to my reciever and then to my TV?
Bypassing DVD region stuff isnt all that uncommon.
Casey Webster Owner Trifocus Security, LLC
Co-op pre-prof programmer IBM Corp RS/6000 Server Group, APT -- Product test
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>Perhaps one day we'll even be able to use robot soldiers to fight our wars instead of shepherding the poor and the minority into our military
You should watch "Gundam Wing" airing on the cartoon network (11:30pm-12am central). It is a great show, and the antagonist uses unmanned "mobile dolls" to fight a war. It gives an interesting perspective as to why its a bad idea to fight wars with unmanned machines.
a more apropriate title for the /. crowd would be
Star Wars 2: Anakin, Amidala, and plenty of hot grits
[casey@pisces:~]$ uname -a
/dev/hd4 16384 7152 57% 1110 28% /
/dev/hd2 1712128 27072 99% 23282 11% /usr
/dev/hd9var 8192 4848 41% 206 21% /var
/dev/hd3 24576 23080 7% 59 2% /tmp
/dev/hd1 245760 73720 71% 4310 15% /home
/dev/lv00 32768 29328 11% 2519 62% /usr/vice/cache
/dev/vardce 24576 17752 28% 68 2% /var/dce
/dev/dfscache 204800 38904 82% 5139 20% /var/dce/adm/dfs/cache /... /afs
AIX pisces 3 4 002046657000
[casey@pisces:~]$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
DFS 18000000 18000000 0% 0 0%
AFS 144000000 144000000 0% 0 0%
[casey@pisces:~]$
my comments are mine alone and do not represent IBM's
to the underlying lvm system. It lets you
do things like
I read the if 2600 was forced to take down its links it would resort to other things like lists or other methods of "linking" that cant be lumped together with hyperlinks. My question then, is when can we expect an injunction against lists?
i prefer MDMA.
Tonights SP episode is the underpants gnomes.
Nah, IBM has plenty of office space, come down to austin, TX, the site was once a closed campus, but now the rent office space out, and not just office space, some company is renting the factory floor where the RS/6k's used to be manufactured in austin, of course all the good space is in the 900 bldgs :) although i personally thing 003 and 045 would make pretty decent doom / quake maps for some good deathmatch.
IBM hasnt forgotten about AFS and DEC/DFS, at least internally, we use it at work pretty extensivly (at least I do, i'm in AIX product test), and your DCE login id is key to almost every other id you get at ibm.
I'm on cable in austin too *makes a longhorn symbol and points himself northwest in his apt on riverside* and have had no probs with a linux box on thier network. I've even called thier support and and they are aware i'm running linux. I also believe the authentication is based on an ID from the modem, as i have 2 ip's (so 2 roomates can play on the same halflife or starcraft server at the same time) and the modem was only able to let one of the ip's be active at any time, so when i called the tech, after confirming that it was the modem the tech banged away at his machine for 2 minutes or so and then i could get 2 ip's. Also, plain vanilla dhcpcd works on rr's network, you dont need rrdhcpcd. RR has been great about service too, everynow and then during peak usage times the network gets laggy, but if you let one of the techs know about it, they generally work out the problem.
GUI Telnet ?????
What do you need a GUI for a program emulating a terminal for?
I got a certified letter from RoadRunner (broadband on TimeWarners cable network) complaining that i had port 25 open, but they didnt ask me to take down my mail server, just to make it more secure. They just wanted to let me know i had failed a mail relay test and my box my be possible abused. I guess some cable companies are just better.
> The new chip represents Via's first attempt to challenge Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, and Advanced Micro at the high end of the computer chip business.
has the pc trade press looked at all the chip makers out there? Since when are x86 xhips high end chips? I would think Compaq's Alpha and IBM's POWER3 (and 4) would far outclass these 'high end' chips.
Yea, i know i'm really paying more than that (tuition is only about half of the money i pay to go to school, fee's are horrendous). We also get "free" fare on the entire austin bus system (but pay for that in fee's).
Through some lucrative "Get windows used by everone" campaign, Microsoft offers a good deal of its products to University of Texas students for $5 a cd
Win2k Pro/win 98 - $5
Visual Studio Pro - $25
Office 2k premium - $20
those arent the only ones for sale, just the ones i have purchased. It does feel good seeing MS Office premium locked in a plastic box at best buy with a $799 pricetag on it, knowing you only paid $20
compiling the kernel takes no time at all.
I did
#make -j bzImage; make -j modules
and it took my computer roughly 2 and a half minutes to compile the kernel and modules. My machine was almost completely unresponsive during that period, but one of my w commands did run and my load avg was at 92
This was on my Athlon 700 (supported by the AMD Irongate chipset)
First of all, let me say i'm impressed that your post wasnt as an AC.
My machine dual boots Windows and Linux (SuSE), and i do admit that i can get more work that i need to get done for school under windows, it is a better desktop environment in my opinion (although that is a little biased since starting a KDE or Gnome session on under X-Win 32 gives me the advantage of having a windows and a Linux desktop under windows, which is a better solution than VMWare (running the windows desktop from Linux) for me.
While i say windows is a better desktop for me, i also recognize the superiority of Linux for servers. You wont catch me loading Win NT / 2K on my servers.
> Given a choice between running Linux, and needing more diskspace for Windows apps, Linux will be deleted.
Actually, i went out and bought a 7200 RPM 40 Gig HD to supplement my 13 Gig HD.
The whole part about the majority of the cost of a CD being recovering marketing costs and putting out videos and getting radio airplay is a bunch of crap spewed by the RIAA. If that were true, my Slipknot CD would cost a lot less than the current Britney Spears CD. The only place I have seen a Slipknot video is channel 15 in Austin TX, which is a like an indie version of MTV (and plays much better content, esp considering its a challeng to even tune to MTV and actually watch a video. Too much pointless programming), not to mention an artist like Britney Spears has a lot more money spent on radio airplay and getting her face on my Taco Bell Cup, then i ask the RIAA, why do those two CD's cost the same???
This guy generally has good things to say, and gives a well thought out talk. He has come down to the Austin site (IBM, where i work) and given some talks on IBM's Linux strategy to those of us involved in AIX and others in the ESG. While many may critisize IBM for different reasons, they really have been putting real effort into linux.
(my comments are in no way representative to those of IBM's)
If thier language reference's document portability is any indication of the portability of c# itself, i wouldn't be to hopeful. I cant look at the pdf's myself because i'm on AIX and the downloads from microsoft are all .exe files.
you make 4 T1's sound like its a lot of bandwidth. A T3 is equivelent to 28 T1's for 44.78 Mbps, and although i dont know if its the case for this transmission, but Qwest boasts OC-192 fiber links. OC-3 is 155 Mb, you do the math.
i've got 54 gigs of hard drive space in my pc :)
10 may be the standard, but high capacity drives are very easy to get and not that expensive ($300).
Yea, slow boot is not something to base a comparison on, try booting an S80 sometime, they can take 3 hours to boot at work at times, esp when they have a ton of SCSI disks to start up and check. During stress testing a load average of 3 isnt uncommon, i've seen a load average of 67 on an RS/6k before, and my telnet session had no noticable performance difference than when the load average was 0.
The computer equipment will most likely be fine. The govt houses all thier big machines behind expensive shielding against stuff like TEMPEST, so i'm sure thier stuff isnt going to be hurt by a little fire.
Who needs a standalon DVD player for this? I have a creative labs 6x DVD, and the install program will let me change the regions 7 times before it locks me out of that, but after that, its prob just a registry edit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DVD_Region might be a good place to start looking... And why limit watching DVD's on my 19" monitor and speakers when i have 60 ft cables delivering S-Video and Dolby Digital AC-3 to my reciever and then to my TV?
Bypassing DVD region stuff isnt all that uncommon.
Casey Webster
Owner
Trifocus Security, LLC
Co-op pre-prof programmer
IBM Corp
RS/6000 Server Group, APT -- Product test